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Writing Tips from So Long As You Write
Did you make a resolution to write more this year? So Long As You Write, edited by Kerry Ryan, is brimming with inspiration and tips on putting pen to paper. We share some of her advice. Read More
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The Myth of Change
By Emily Schmidt
Emily Schmidt writes a love letter to New York City, her reflection, and the people each of us have yet to be. Read More
9 months ago
Little Red
By Rebecca Lambert
Rebecca Lambert's 'Little Red' is her re-telling of a popular fairy-tale. For the little girl in her story, the threat has moved from outside to inside the home, and the ‘wolfish’ characteristics that were made palatable in a fairy-tale context become humanised in a frighteningly plausible scenario. Read More
9 months ago
Look Away, Look Away
By Ann Howells
Ann Howells' moving poem explores the inherited climate crisis and it's effects on our future. Read More
10 months ago
My Mother Fights a Gentle Breeze and Loses
By Alexandra Burton
Alexandra Burton's visceral poem delves into the pain we inherit from those who raise us. Read More
11 months ago
Our current theme: MYTH
A made-up story, or something we want to believe in? For our next theme, we want to know what MYTH means to you. Submit by 17 April. Read More
11 months ago
All The Things You Left Behind
By Zena Spiers
Zena Spiers looks at inheritance through the prism of grief and what someone leaves behind. Read More
11 months ago
What We Inherit
By Gerry Stewart
Tensions and silences build in a poem that examines the family traits we want to avoid inheriting, but seem bound to take on. Read More
11 months ago
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